What are two important settings in The Midwife's Apprentice?

Two important settings from the novel were the dung heap and Jane's cottage.  When the story began, Alyce was a homeless girl who found warmth in a dung heap.  This setting was a place where "garbage and spoiled straw [were] piled up in a great heap" in the village.  Even though the heap of trash smelled awful, Alyce burrowed herself inside because the night was cold.  Jane, the midwife, found Alyce in the dung heap the next morning.  Meeting Jane changed Alyce's life, because she found a home and became the midwife's apprentice.

Another important setting was Jane's cottage.  The cottage had a fireplace, a hard packed dirt floor, and dusty "shelves packed with jugs and flasks and leather bottles."  Alyce moved into Jane's cottage when she became the midwife's apprentice.  She slept on the dirt floor and did chores and ran errands for Jane.  This was the first real home that Alyce could remember having.